[R] How to not to terminate read.table if the input file is empty?

[Dylan Beaudette]

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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> read.table terminates the program if the input file is empty. Is there
> way to let the program continue and return me a NULL instead of
> terminating the program?
>
> $ Rscript read_empty.R
>> read.table("empty_data.txt")
> Error in read.table("empty_data.txt") : no lines available in input
> Execution halted
> $ cat read_empty.R
> read.table("empty_data.txt")
> $ cat empty_data.txt; echo EOF
> EOF
>
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